Too many people are confusing the two. Whenever lemmy.ml or its devs do something stupid, people go “Lemmy is getting worse and worse,” or “I’m leaving Lemmy,” or worse, “I’m leaving for Beehaw.”
If you’re using Beehaw, then you’re using Lemmy. Lemmy is the software these instances run on. If you don’t like lemmy.ml, join another instances that have rules that match your philosophy. Some instance hosts authoritarian or fascist shit? Turn to another Lemmy instance. Lemmy.ml is not even the biggest instance. People who just joined and are unfamiliar with the platform will just think the entire Lemmyverse is run by autocratic admins if we don’t get our terminology right.
Where is the evidence in any of these stories? nothing is presented in the second piece showing the database mentioned exists. The testimony in the second piece is from a man with ties to uigher organizations in Washington DC that were founded by the CIA through the NED. The last one is about a second hand statement on the language of a report produced by a company contracted by the Chinese government. That is four degrees removed from the alleged crime. The steady trickle of information has been so weakly evidenced and inconclusive which doesn’t make any sense for the scale of the crimes alleged.